i88 A VOYAGE TO Book VII. 



Within" the government of Buenos Ayres, arc 

 three other cities, namely, Santa Fe, las Corientes, 

 and Monte-video. The laft which was lately built. 

 Hands on the border of the bay, from whence it de- 

 rives its name. Santa Fe, lies about ninety leagues 

 N. W. of Buenos Ayres, between the Rio de la 

 Plata, and the Rio Salado, which after running thro* 

 the country of Tucuman, joins the former. The 

 city is but fmall, and meanly built ; owing in a great 

 meafure, to the infults it has frequently fuffered from 

 the heathen Indians, who not long fince pillaged it, 

 maflacreing the inhabitants of the city, and thofe of 

 the neighbouring villages; and they ftill keep the 

 country under continual apprehenfions of another 

 vifit. It is however the channel of the commerce be- 

 tween Paraguay and Buenos Ayres, for the herb Cami- 

 ni and Palos. The city de las Corientes, fituated on 

 the eaftern banks of the river de la Plata, betwixt it 

 and the river Parana, is about a hundreci leagues N, 

 of the city of Santa Fe. Its magnitude and difpofi- 

 tion are both inferior to Santa Fe, and indeed has no 

 marks of a city except the name. Each of thefe cities 

 has its particular corregidor, as lieutenant of the 

 governor ; and its inhabitants, together with thofe of 

 the neighbouring country are formed into a militia, 

 which on any appearance of an invafion from the In- 

 dians, alTemble, and have often fiiewn a great deal of 

 refolution in repelling the attacks of their Pagan 

 enemies. It has already been obferved, that part of 

 the towns of the miffions of Paraguay belong to this 

 diocefs, and vvith regard to the royal jurifdidlion, 

 thefe miffions univerfally depend on Buenos Ayres ; 

 thofe which formerly belonged to the government of 

 Paraguay having been feparated from it. 



Having thus with the government of Buenos 

 Ayres, finiihed my account of every thing worthy 

 of notice in the audiences of Lima and Charcas ; 

 together with the jurifdidions included in their dio^ 



^peffes, 



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